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Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg (born October 24, 1989 (1989-10-24) [age 27]), known by his YouTube username PewDiePie, is a Swedish gamer, vlogger, comedian, and YouTube celebrity who plays video games and records his commentary and reactions through audio and webcam. He is also the most subscribed YouTube channel with over 56 million subscribers.

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About

He is known for his horror playthroughs, freestyle/skit humor, and indie games commentary. The name "PewDiePie" was formed by the term "Pew! (as in a gun shooting) Die!", which was his original channel. When he supposedly forgot his password, he created another channel by adding 'Pie' because "He loves pie," resulting in PewDiePie. It has now become his main channel. He has the most subscribed channel on YouTube and has the highest record of subscribers of any YouTuber of all-time.

History

Felix first joined YouTube on December 19, 2006. His first YouTube channel is Pewdie He has just over 440,000+ subscribers on the Pewdie channel, 12.5 million views and 14 videos on it. Most content on the Pewdie channel consists of gaming, but there are vlogging videos as well. His first few Friday with PewDiePie series were first uploaded on his Pewdie channel.

He also has a friend who uploads short clips from his videos under the channel SkaterOfFabulous which he mentioned in a Fridays with PewDiePie Q&A episode.

Pewdiepie would start to gain media attention in 2012 as he uploaded videos of his dark humor and likable reactions to computer games, horror games however really boosted his subscriber growth.

Kjellberg became the Most Subscribed YouTube Channel of all Time on August 15, 2013 after surpassing Smosh. He eventually dropped to #2 after the YouTube Spotlight passed him on November 2, 2013. On December 8, 2013, he beat The YouTube Channel to reclaim the #1 spot and then lost it only a day later to YouTube again. Then after several hours, on December 9, he reclaimed the title once again but three days later, reclaiming it on December 22 of that year. He gained the most subscribers than anyone in a calendar year in 2013 jumping from 3.5 to 19.3 million subscribers that year, behind YouTube Spotlight who jumped from 945 thousand to 19.1 million, the most in 2014 gaining 13.954 million subscribers, the third most in 2015 behind Markiplier, and JustinBieberVEVO jumping from a bit over 33 million to a bit over 41 million subscribers, and although not knowing where he ranked in 2016 (it may be #2 behind JustinBieberVEVO) he gained one of the several most amount of subscribers gaining 10.5 million that year.

At the moment, he is in a relationship with Marzia Bisognin otherwise known as CutiePieMarzia for more than 5 years. He stars in two popular games, Pewdiepie's Tuber Simulator and PewDiePie: Legend of the Brofist.

Pewdiepie has also had clothing lines such as Backpacks. He also made a book in late 2015 called "This Book Loves You". He has transitioned more in to vlogging than gaming these days.

He stated that when he reaches 50 million subs, he will erase his YouTube channel and start all over again. In December 2016, he reached that goal. However, due to careful forethought, he deleted a secondary channel previously created. This channel, Jack septiceye2, was deleted in place of PewDiePie, and Felix kept his 50,000,000 subscriber channel.

Personal Life

Felix was born in Gothenburg, Sweden. He graduated from Göteborgs Högre Samskola in 2008 and attended the Chalmers University of Technology to pursue a degree in Industrial Economics and Technology Management, but left in 2011 to focus on his YouTube career. Some of PewDiePie's first subscribers say that he has changed a lot but still say that "he's awesome". Felix's first job was selling hot dogs.

Felix explains more of his personal and early life in his Draw My Life video.

The Kjellberg Family

Felix made a video where he shows his family. He made it on his birthday, October 24, 2014. Felix's mother's name is Johanna Kjellberg. His dad's name is Ulf Kjellberg. He also has an older sister named Fanny Kjellberg who is married and has a baby.

Pets

His pets have mostly been either cats or dogs. His first pet was a cat who died of old age. Ynk was the second pet. She is a Yorkie. Ynk for now lives with Felix's mother in Sweden. She appeared in a video published December 28, 2016. His second dog is Maya. Maya has a missing eye, because she had a incident with a cat when she was a puppy. There is also a Crossy Road mascot based on her, called Pew Die Pug. Since October 13, 2013, Felix has another dog named Edgar Allen Pug. When Felix got Edgar, he was one year old, and when he came to his new home he was really nervous. Edgar is three years old now, but bigger than Maya in size. Felix and Marzia also had 2 axolotls, Bill and Clint, but they had to be given away due to their fish tank breaking. He also owns a small toad named Slippy who has been featured in many of Felix's videos, most recently the "BOTTLEFLIP CHALLENGE" video he recently filmed with another popular YouTuber, Jacksepticeye. Slippy resides in a glass tank in Felix's recording studio.

Maya, Felix, and Edgar.

Personality

PewDiePie has a somewhat common personality for YouTube. However, how well he executes his personality is what makes him so popular. PewDiePie acts confused, and crazy during his gameplay, and is very humor oriented. He also swears very commonly, and isn't afraid to outright state what he says, making fun of some of the games he plays. He is very caring, and hosts multiple charity events to help others.When angry or scared, Felix used to have a tendency to swear profusely and somewhat nonsensically in Swedish. Since getting older he has swarmed away from this behavior

Controversy

After a video was made by a user named "retsupurae" called "Adults React to PewDiePie" a comment by a fake YouTuber going by the name of PewDiePie was made, which he said "Your extra views get me extra cash". This quickly caused an outbreak in hate and controversy. PewDiePie mistakenly later apologized and explained what he meant by the comment in his video "I'm sorry". PewDiePie's "I'm sorry" video also sparked some controversy, due to the fact that he generalized all of his haters as being trolls, and assumed that all of their criticism came out of jealousy.

PewDiePie's fans have also become controversial, as some would go to other gameplay commentary YouTubers (Such as Tobuscus and UberHaxorNova) and comment saying that they are copying PewDiePie. PewDiePie's fans are also under controversy for their threats of death, pain, and rape in videos that rant PewDiePie and/or his fan base, The Bro Army. PewDiePie made a reaction parody video to this, where he mocked himself by saying that he was copying other YouTubers, as they had existing gameplay footage on YouTube. He stated that he made this video as the comments were getting 'ridiculous'.

PewDiePie's video which is saying his fans' comments are getting ridiculous.

PewDiePie stated in episode 9 of the BroKen podcast: “I’m just gonna say this: Don’t sign with a network.”…“If you’re a small channel, what’s the benefit of a network?" in regards to Multi-Channel Networks.

On December 2, 2016, PewDiePie was suggesting taking down his YouTube channel once he reached 50 million subscribers.[1] The reason being is because of a YouTube view count and subscription glitch that YouTube denied,[2][3] which PewDiePie said was a lie and Felix said he cared about smaller YouTubers, as well.Pewdiepie would go on to delete his 2nd channel, jacksepticeye2, which he made as a joke to mock fellow YouTuber and friend, Jacksepticeye.

At the beginning of 2017, PewDiePie made a video which included 2 guys from the website "Fiverr" holding a sign saying "death to all jews" which he requested them to do. This sparked many people to be offended by it which Pewdiepie eventually apologized but also joked about the fact that people were offended over a joke which intention was to cause humor rather than offense.

A month later the Wall Street Journal published an article about Pewdiepie saying he is an anti-Semite and using his jokes to prove it through 9 videos between August of 2016 and in early 2017. This eventually made Maker Studios, Pewdiepie's network since late 2012 drop his channel as well as his YouTube Red show, Scare PewDiePie: Multiplayer getting cancelled by YouTube and his name being removed from Google Preferred. Pewdiepie has again apologized however gave a middle finger to Wall Street Journal as well as expressing how excited he was for finally being an independent channel again. During the whole drama, many news sites had made articles against Pewds' actions. However, several YouTubers came and supported Felix, including Philip DeFranco, Markiplier, and many others. On February 18, 2017, YouTuber jacksepticeye uploaded a video titled "Let's Talk! " talking about this whole situation. Some of the words said by Jack in the video were not clear, making some people believe that he "backstabbed" Felix and supported Maker Studios. Since the video was uploaded, Jack has apologized and has talked to Felix privately, as well as making things clear to his fans. Jack and Felix are still friends and record videos together, as seen in this one.

Miscellaneous Videos

Collaborations with CutiePieMarzia

PewDiePie has done some collaborations with his current girlfriend, CutiePieMarzia. Often these follow no specific upload pattern, as well as what is done. Sometimes they play video games together, such as the Amnesia and Happy Wheels videos they did together. Other times they do card games, (Cards Against Humanity) other times tags, such as the Guess the YouTuber video.

Friday's with PewDiePie

Beginning in 2011, PewDiePie started to make unique videos on Fridays which are typically from 3 minutes to 10 minutes long (though the longest being 16 minutes long). At the beginning of every video, he has a creative introduction with graphics, and the intro ends with him saying in a high pitched voice, "Fridays with PewDiePie~". Usually, the Friday videos are non-gameplay videos giving PewDiePie his chance to check up and communicate with his subscribers, especially since the popularity of his channel continues to grow rapidly, he dedicated many Friday videos to thank his subscribers and their support. PewDiePie has talked about any upcoming traveling, events, projects or contests he will be doing, or shares what is going on in his life right at the moment. Any comments or things that need to be personally addressed to his fans/bros PewDiePie speaks of in his Friday videos. Each video ends with PewDiePie holding his fist up, and giving a "brofist" to the recording camera to which the person watching the video may also give Felix a "brofist" back at the same time.

Omegle

Omegle is a text and video chat website PewDiePie has been using as of August 2012 to randomly connect with and surprise his fans. It usually starts out with PewDiePie typing his name in the "common interest" box of Omegle and clicking the button to start a video chat with whomever he connects with. The reaction of the person he connects with ranges from shock, surprise, to disbelief and excitability that he/she is actually seeing and speaking to PewDiePie.

Disabling the comments

In 2014, Felix decided to shut down the comments, because they were mostly spam/unnecessary hate. Later, he made a video talking about this issue. He enabled the comments again after a while and at times replies to the nicer ones.

In 2016, Felix created a Network or a with a group of YouTubers named Revelmode. The group started off small and Felix said it would get bigger,however due to his anti semetic joke controversy and his network who owned Revel who pulled away from him after the controversy,the project was cancelled.

Characters

Cry of Fear

Polisbil Polisbil

(Swedish for police car.) Polisbil Polisbil is a police car found at intervals during Cry of Fear. The first time Felix met Polisbil, Polisbil killed him due to a glitch. For some reason, after this, they became good friends and regularly greet each other throughout the game.

Farsha

Farsha is what reads as the destination on all trains in Cry of Fear. Because of this, Felix calls the trains Farsha. Farsha did not show up very often and unfortunately committed suicide (drove off a cliff) near the end of the game.

Ruben's Mom

Ruben's Mom is a demented looking housewife that constantly tries to kill PewDiePie. She has a unique appearance; spikes on her arms and feet, a "50's housewife".

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

The Barrels

They are the main enemy according to Pewds. Whenever he sees a barrel while exploring a room he shouts at it and/or destroys it. This started because most of the time when bad things happened to him there are barrels right next to him, so they were a sign of bad things ever since. "YOU DAMN BARRELS" ~what PewDiePie usually says when finding one

Stephano

Stephano is a golden statue of a knight driving a sword into the ground. Felix uses him as his main travel companion in Amnesia. Pewds claims that Stephano is fearless and he will often be found on a table or in a chest in Amnesia. He shows no signs of rusting and the reason he took Skully's place as PewDiePie's travel companion is genuinely because he appears more often.

Martin

Martin is a man with an execution hood on his head, and green glowing lines on his stomach who is often found hanging from a ceiling via rope. Martin shows up in many custom stories that PewDiePie plays. In a custom story called the Killings in Altstadt, the screen would go black in an inn bedroom and Martin would appear in front of Pewds, causing him to yell out: "Martin! Get off me, Martin! Martin tried to rape me!"

The Bro (AKA Servant Grunt)

The servant grunt is an enemy in Amnesia who attacks the player upon sight and chases them until the player is out of sight. A low growling sound is made when the servant grunt is nearby and a screeching sound (officially called "Terror Meter") is played when it's on the chase. The first major encounter Pewds had with "The Bro" was in the prison cell of the original series The Dark Descent. Hearing a growling noise, Pewds hid in the next door without hesitation, only to find out that the bro was right behind him. Pewds outran the grunt at first, but he looked back and gave the servant grunt a chance to slash the player and knock him out. He also gives them a pedophiliac personality and the Bro often calls him "cheese/sugar tits" and on one occasion, said "its raping time!"

Piggeh

Piggeh is a dead pig in Amnesia that PewDiePie uses as a companion. His birthday is August 29, 2011, when he was first given a name and voice. Piggeh's catch phrase is: "I'm pumped! I'm so pumped!". Piggeh's vocabulary is full of creepy satirical humor; with him typically using a variety of sexual references, ranging from orgies to rape. When he is carried around, he has very fluid movements, causing PewDiePie to often make Piggeh say something like: "You thought I'm a pig, no, I'm a snake.". Whenever there is a bed nearby, Piggeh often tries to seduce Pewds by saying things like: "You like me over on the bed maybe? Or how about here?". On one episode he shows PewDiePie how he penetrates while saying. "Hey Pewdie this is how I penetrate. This isn't gay right all I'm doing is showing how I penetrate. You could say that you're not interested I mean I'm right here so just go ahead and say you're interested."

Skully

Skully is a human skull in Amnesia that PewDiePie would carry around as a companion. Skully functioned as an early version of Stephano, and while there are a few episodes including him after Stephano's naming, he has become one of the least used characters in Amnesia, although his tendency to appear in other games more than Piggeh or Stephano, does get him used sometimes.

Jennifer

Jennifer is a rock in Amnesia that Felix calls fat, due to her being large whenever he finds her. Jennifer loves Felix and always says "I love you Pewdie!" but Felix typically responses with, "You're too fat, Jennifer." or "I know, Jennifer, you told me a thousand times already!". Fan girls sympathize with Jennifer because they love Felix as much as she does, but always get rejected in the end. She now doesn't appear much when Felix plays Amnesia except for when a rock is chasing or being thrown at him in the game.

Teleporting Naked Guys

These are men that are naked and teleport everywhere in Felix's face that makes him jump, panic or scream, hence the name Teleporting Naked Guys. When Felix sees one, he might make a joking sexual comment such as, "Oh goddamn, you're sexy." In the video, "Amnesia: Custom Story- Lost the Lights- Part 10, one of the teleporting naked guys flies down a hall way saying, "HI, BILLY MAYS HERE!" and frightens PewDiePie until he realizes what it said and starts commenting on it before continuing his journey.

Mayo

Mayonnaise is a stool or small table. Felix encountered it in part 1 of "House of Creep 3" where he even mentioned a table mode. Mayo does not show up as much as the other characters. It was revealed in a custom story that Mayo worked for the Barrels, and it shocked Felix.

Mr. Chair

A chair in Amnesia. An old friend of Pewds'. He has also guest starred in many other games, keeping Felix company so he won't be scared. There have been situations in which Mr. Chair is forced to work against Felix, but he has always been a faithful companion.

Penny

A chair in Amnesia.

Sven

A boat from an Amnesia custom story.

Happy Wheels

Irresponsible Dad & His Son

PewDiePie is exceptionally famous for being the 'Irresponsible Dad' in Happy Wheels and the dad is famous for being horribly irresponsible to his son. Whenever the son says something to the dad, the dad replies, "I DON'T CAREEEE!!!". Their names are unknown, however the son is sometimes referred to as Timmy and the dad is rarely referred to as Jason. The son has mentioned to be gay many times.

Vespa

When PewDiePie plays as Segway guy in Happy Wheels he refers to the Segway as Vespa. Segway guy seems to be emotionally attached to Vespa, sometimes wanting to kiss or cuddle her/it. (On the rare occasions that Felix plays as Moped Couple, the moped they ride on is also called Vespa.)

Silent Hill 1

Throughout the playthrough of Silent Hill, PewDiePie often gives nicknames to the various enemies found in the game. They do not usually interact with PewDiePie verbally, though he will often comment about them. PewDiePie also shows disgust towards them, and will proceed to attack shoot or bludgeon them to death (or, if he is unarmed, he will run and yell "Don't rape me!").

Pterodactyl

Pterodactyls are flying reptilian creatures that roam the outside skies of the game. It will chase player immediately on sight, though the player may outrun the creature. PewDiePie will usually yell and run away from it, though he will attempt to shoot them if he has a gun, the actual name is Air-screamers.

Doggie

Doggie is a horribly altered versions of a canine and will pounce on to the player if they are close enough. It's quick and agile and can chase the player for long distances. Doggie is the most common name for the dogs, though PewDiePie will give them alternations depending on their number and situation. He is also known to them Rufus, or simply "Dog", The actual name for them is Groaners.

Ainsley

Ainsley Is A Cardboard Cutout Of The Real Ainsley Harriott. PewDiePie Would Often Give Ainsley A Humorous Robot Voice Or A Deep Male Robot Voice. Ainsley Had Many Funny Moments With Pewds Until Felix Finally Ridded Him By Tearing Half Of His Head Off, "Releasing" Him. He Then Exclaimed "We're Free Ainsley! We Don't Have To Play This Game Anymore!"

Danny Devito

Much Like Ainsley Danny DeVito Is a Cardboard Cutout Of The Real Danny DeVito. However He Had A More Feminine Robot Voice Than Ainsley And Would Normally Roast Pewds In His Videos Or Say Funny Things Like " I Like To Lick Feet"

Weapons

Cry of Fear

Baton

Baton is a police nightstick used as a weapon in Cry of Fear. PewDiePie seems to be friends with Baton and will often leave a better weapon behind just to have him.

Condemned: Criminal Origins

Pipé

Pipé (Pronounced pee-peh) is a pipé used as a weapon in Condemned and Grey. Pipé has a French accent and often says "Ah, bonjour! J'mappele Pipé!". Pipé is also usable as a weapon in Condemned: Bloodshot, Felix has used him in his playthrough too.

Locker door

Locker Door is another of Felix's favorite weapons from Condemned. Locker door is sensitive to bad language for some reason, and if an enemy swears in front of him, PewDiePie will generally tazer him shouting: "DON'T SWEAR IN FRONT OF LOCKER DOOR!"

Tazer

The tazer in Condemned doesn't really have a personality, although because it's a powerful weapon, Felix will occasionally shout different things when using it, some of which are:"Unlimited Power!!!" (Star Wars reference) and "Pikachu POWER!!!" (Pokémon Reference).

Boot

The ability to kick an enemy in Condemned has a slightly odd graphic. It shows just an ankle and boot appear on screen for a second, then disappear again. PewDiePie uses the boot to great effect, and yells "Random BOOT!" or, "BOOT it!". PewDiePie even named the last episode of Condemned: Criminal Origins after Boot, naming it: Final battle, with BOOT! Boot rarely talks, but when he does he exhibits an extremely violent and perverse nature – frequently telling Felix to rape Boots victims, to which Felix often responds "No Boot, we do NOT rape people!"

Other Characters

Jeremy

Jeremy is a faceless wooden doll found scattered around the house in Paranormal. Felix gives him the same voice as the son from Happy Wheels, making Jeremy seem childlike and annoying. In Paranormal, Jeremy makes several demon sacrifices, making Felix scream: "JEREMY! What did I tell you about the demon sacrifices, Jeremy!?". Jeremy can also be found in Anna, where dark figures without faces circled around the player, who is immobilized for a moment, and then disappear. Shortly after this, Felix yelled, "DEMONIC SACRIFICES! Not cool! I told him, don't do demonic sacrifices, but no! Son of a barrel!" Anywhere there is a faceless doll or sacrifices in a game, Felix will also yell at Jeremy (He recently turned up in Haunted Investigations as a sinister white doll).

Hercy

Hercy (short for Hercules) is a flashing metal box found in Ghost Hunt to tell you when ghosts are nearby. PewDiePie is terrified of ghosts, and so he and Hercy made good friends as Hercy is very comforting. Felix will sometimes say hello to Hercy when he sees a flashing metal box in another game.

Jörgen

A character from Thirty Flights of Loving, who PewDiePie drives around in a cart. Felix later finds out that Jörgen's real name is Winston, but he still calls him Jörgen.

Jerry

A character in Limbo.

Bob

His character in Skate 3 and in any game where the protagonist doesn't have a name lately.

Gabe

A character, (Real Name: Chris Walker) and frequent enemy in the video game Outlast.

PewDiePie is the first and only channel to reach over 40 and 50 million subscribers. He has an astounding 24 million subscribers lead over second place HolaSoyGerman.

In Cry of Fear (not the standalone version) after breaking the first wall with your hammer, if you go straight on the ramp and open the door, there's Stephano inside, and when you click on him Simon says "Stephano!? What the fuck PewDiePie!" then a handcrab will appear.

He is the 4th biggest channel overall, as the top 3 are owned by YouTube.

PewDiePie from 2011 to 2012 was with the Network, Machinima, however due to Pewdiepie not getting the pay or attention he needed quit being a partner. He has expressed the inconvenience he had with Machinima since with disgust.

According to a Reddit AMA, he plays the electric guitar and has a certain degree of proficiency on the drums and piano.

PewDiePie's first subscriber (or close to it) was his friend Xebaz who says he "wishes that Felix wasn't so busy today in a recent interview. More of his first subscribers state they think he's changed but they still enjoy his videos today.

Felix is known for swearing in his videos, going as far as electric shocking himself for swearing in an Impossible Game video.

PewDiePie hit 40 Million Subscribers on his 26th birthday.

PewDiePie has raised nearly 2 million dollars to charity.

PewDiePie went to Chalmers College due to getting a good grade on a admissions test.

PewDiePie has had controversy for making rape jokes in 2012.

Pewds has some of the most liked and commented videos of all time

Felix has won many awards.

PewDiePie is a moderate racist according to the Harvard's IAT.

Felix is a fan of anime.

Felix plays StarCraft II and Hearthstone.

Although not acknowledged or well known, Felix reached his ten year anniversary on Youtube.com on December 19, 2016. Although the PewDiePie channel was created in late April of 2010, he created his first account on December 19, 2006 titled "Pewdie".

There are two games based on PewDiePie which are PewDiePie: Legend of the Brofist and PewDiePie's Tuber Simulator.

List Of Subscriber Milestones

Note the following dates are according to SociaBlade.com the dates may vary by about 1 day, and if you live outside of North America the dates may vary by 1 - 2 days due to the Time Zone Difference.

Felix hit 46 million subscribers on June 22, or June 23, 2016. But on June 28, 2016 Felix's subscriber count dropped to about 45,610,000 subscribers due to about 1.2% of his subscribers being automatically removed by YouTube due to being inactive called "The Sub Purge".

Felix hit 53 million subscribers on February 4, 2017. However due to a glitch on YouTube that brought his subscriber count down, he went down to 52.4 million subscribers. This happened on february 8, 2017. The glitch was fixed the next day and as a result the PewDiePie channel would hit 53 million subscribers again.

Most Impressive YouTube Records

External links

In addition to having his own official website, PewDiePie also has a merchandising site in which he sells t-shirts in different colors with fanart and slogans such as, "Uh, Dad?" "I DON'T CAARE!", "CHOP CHOP CHOP", "RUBEN!!", "Noo, Stephano!", etc. There is a site for U.S. residents and one for European residents. Marzia (his girlfriend) also has a website in which she gives fashion advice. He also has a website to donate to a water charity fund called mycharitywater.org/pewdiepie to give clean water to those that don't have it. There is also an unofficial wiki for him.